Burnham Pay Parking Paves the Way for Parking Building
The City Council approved on final reading Tuesday, the ordinance that mandates payment for use of the old auditorium site for the next six months, which takes effect once Mayor Bautista signs it.
According to this news article:
Pay parking rates for buses is pegged at P40 for the first hour and the P10 for succeeding hours, for tourist vans, pick-up and jeeps is at P20 for the first hour and P10 for the succeeding hours; for motorcycles, P10 for the first hour and P5 for the succeeding hours, while overnight parking is for P200.
Councilor Elaine Sembrano voted against the proposal after learning that while the Council is studying how to utilize the lot, the mayor wrote Philippine Tourism Authority chair Robert Dean Barbers and requested for the allocation P4 million for the improvement of the lot and for the construction of stalls for Burnham vendors.
During the previous deliberations of the City Council, Councilors Nicasio Palaganas and Erdolfo Balajadia proposed the restoration of old auditorium.
A wise man told me that things just have to get worse before they get better.
Well, mark my words, these unimaginative people on our local government will next use the income from this venture to justify the parking building on Burnham park; they will set the collection of parking as a precendent; they will institutionalize parking via a building.
There will also be stalls and carinderias to cater to the drivers.
And the Baguio residents and visitors will be subjected to the unsightly mess of this palengke-like, jologs moves of politicians who believe they were elected kings of Baguio.
Did you notice they allowed overnight parking. Heck, the hotel associations of Baguio should oppose this! Calling Anthony de Leon (HRAB) and Jeannine McCann-Chan (BAHAI). Overnight parking transaltes to people using Burnham Parking for their lodging and toilet needs.
Puede na rin ’short time’ — P200 lang!
And we end up covering the beauty of our natural surroundings with gaudy tourist buses and jeepneys that say “Valdez Family”
I would landscape that area and use it as picnic grounds on the short term. I agree also that an old auditorium should be replaced with a new auditorium. What’s wrong with having a city auditorium ba? So that the art and culture can disappear from the city and we will end up ‘educating’ soul-less children?
Oh well, Baguio, let’s not oppose this. Let’s give up our parks as parking areas and flea markets, why don’t we?
Lisa:
I heard this from a Malacanang conference: the President signed an order that “devolves” Burnham Park, and delegates the administrative responsibilities to the City Government.
Damn!
Yup, Marck, it’s all over the local news. Bautista is sooo happy that Gloria agreed to give him Burnham Park.
Wow, now UB can call Burnham Park an extension of its campus! Free sports area, free parking building, using Baguio land with Baguio money. Just because these @#$$%^& Baguio schools are greedily stuffing clueless provincianos into their admission exam free mills into tight, unsafe building clusters, Baguio residents and visitors have to suffer all the congestion and uglification.
Something that went unnoticed last Jan 11, 2008
check out: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bag/2008/01/11/news/3.city.parks.up.for.development.html where Bautista is planning to build a theme park at Botanical Garden for a sister city (read: Korea).
All I can say is ‘tang ‘na!
Mayor,
Manood ka ng Discovery Channel, or I can pay you a ticket (tiger air lang) to see Singapore.
Almost all parking is underground not up !
Cryst,
I think they’re considering underground parking now. Msybe if everyone says that’s what they want they’ll listen.
The more positive thing to do really is to make suggestions, so thanks for this.